André Naffis-Sahely Exactly a year prior to Nazi Germany’s surrender, while Allied planes were busy carpet-bombing the old continent in preparation for the D-Day landings, …
Lucy Mercer “Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up […] now try to imagine what it …
This is an extract from Mark Ford’s ‘Thomas Hardy – Half a Londoner’ which will be published in November 2016 by Harvard University Press Hardy’s …
Dave Coates The Helmet When shiny Hector reached out for his son, the wean Squirmed and buried his head between his nurse’s breasts And …
Chris Larkin ‘One needs to be a botanist, a physical geographer, and a naturalist, as well as an historian, to be able to feel certain …
Toby Martinez de las Rivas The quote in the title of this short article is taken from Of Heaven and Hell by Jakob Boehme, a …
John Clegg Les Murray is Teflon to generalisation. Ages ago in Areté, Jeremy Noel-Tod made an overview of his poetry which was acerbic and funny …
Isabel Galleymore Given that Juliana Spahr’s poetry seeks to establish connection between the individual and the world, there is a certain irony in the way …
Daisy Lafarge [Spoiler alert: discusses later scenes of the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie] “I’m gonna bash your little head in, and …
Hugh Foley To understand where Michael Robbins is coming from (aside from America) it might help to take a detour to Buzzfeed. There you can …